Indeed, AGI will most likely be able to reason, learn, and innovate in any task. It will also not only match but outperform humans in its cognitive capabilities – and the milestone might even be reached this year, as the eternal AI optimist, Open AI CEO Sam Altman argues.

Business Insider's diary takes you behind the scenes on day three of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

OpenAI Inc. CFO Sarah Friar said the company had "a big breakthrough" around reasoning models in 2024. "We do internally feel that we have a path towards AGI," Friar told Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary.

"Half of employers plan to re-orient their business in response to AI," writes the WEF in the report. "Two-thirds plan to hire talent with specific AI skills, while 40% anticipate reducing their workforce where AI can automate tasks."

On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

As AI heavyweights boast big advances for 2025, CIOs advise their peers to focus on the practicalities of business-aligned use cases that augment rather than replace human work.

Business and nonprofit leaders participated in a wide-ranging TIME100 Talk at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Updates: The 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will convene under the theme - Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23rd, 2025. Alexandr Wang, whose company Scale AI provides training data to key artificial intelligence players including OpenAI, Google and Meta, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an "AI war."

The U.N. chief ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world’s thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster” that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks posed by artificial intelligence if its ascent goes ungoverned.

A speech by the U.N. chief, economic growth potential in places like China and Russia, the challenges of artificial intelligence, and appearances by leaders from Spain to Malaysia are set to headline the agenda at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos on Wednesday.